Literary Fiction

La mansion de araucaima

by Alvaro Mutis

Colombian master Álvaro Mutis conjures a decaying estate in the tropical lowlands where time, morality, and reason dissolve into humid atmosphere. Within the crumbling mansion of Araucaima, characters enact a hypnotic dance of desire and violence, trapped in a suspended reality. Mutis creates a fever dream of Gothic decay transplanted to the Colombian rainforest.

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